460 NILAUS CAMERUNENSIS 
N. a. hilgerti: Abyssinia— Kassim River and Wama (Lovat), 
Goubré (Degen), Lake Zwai and Lake Koya (Zaphiro). 
Nilaus camerunensis. 
Nilaus afer camerunensis, Neumann, J. f. O. 1907, p. 364 Jaunde ; 
O.-Grant, Trans. Zool. Soc. xix. p. 336 (1910) Ruwenzori. 
Nilaus minor (non Sharpe) O.-Grant, Ibis, 1905, p. 902 Mulema. 
Nilaus nigritemporalis, Jackson (non Reichen.), Ibis, 1906, p. 553 Toro. 
Male. Resembling most closely N. minor, but larger and with the flank 
bands a darker chocolate brown, not cinnamon ; the mantle patches and the 
wing bands are faintly washed with buffy as in N. minor; from N. afer it 
differs in having the flank bands continuous, not broken up into separate 
streaks. Iris hazel; bill black, grey about base; feet dark slate. Length 
5°75 inches; wing 3:15; tail 2:0; culmen 0:60; tarsus 0:80. Ruwenzori 
(Ruwenzori Exped.). 
The female resembles the male except that the black of the upper parts 
is replaced by dusky brown. Young birds have the crown and wings spotted 
with whitish and the under parts narrowly banded with dusky and at first 
very little chocolate on the flanks. Later on the males resemble the 
females, but have the mantle patch a deeper tawny and a few fine streaks 
of dusky on the throat. 
The Camaroon Brubru was described by Neumann from 
a single female specimen from Jaunde in Camaroon. ‘To this 
form Ogilvie-Grant has referred with some hesitation a series 
of Brubrus collected at Mokia on the south-eastern slopes 
of Ruwenzori by the members of the recent expedition ; and 
without doubt Doggett’s specimen from Mulema in Uganda 
and the two young birds from Toro referred to N. negri- 
temporalis by Jackson are identical with the Ruwenzori 
examples. ‘This identification cannot be definitely settled 
until further specimens are obtained from Camaroon. 
Woosnam states that this species is not uncommon 
throughout the acacia country around the south end of 
Ruwenzori and in the Semliki valley. 
The British Museum contains four males, three females 
